Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Lough Gara, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lough Gara
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97000, -8.46224
- SMR number
- SL044-071----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a wet meadow on the shores of Lough Gara, SE of another crannog (SL044-070----), at the E edge of a dry ridge parallel to the shore. The E portion projects into the lake. A small roughly circular stone platform-crannog (5m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.2m above the lake-bed) consisting of an area of scattered stones mixed with natural lake pebbles. In the SW quadrant there are three or four large stones (dims. c. 0.5m x 0.4m; 0.85m x 0.65m). This is one of a group of four crannogs (SL044-069----; SL044-070----; SL044-072----). (Cross 1953, fig. 1; Fredengren 2002, KILF 001)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.